.............................Marion County Florida................................

Marion County Board of County Commissioners BOCC

The Board of County Commissionersis the primary legislative and
policy-making body for Marion County. Each commissioner represents one of the five districts in which they reside. They are elected by all county voters to serve a four-year term. The board elects a
chairman and vice-chairman each year.Read more

OKKKala- Racism isn't over, it's on full parade! An estimated 2,000
vehicles, mostly motorcycles and trucks adorned with Confederate battle flags, took part in a rally and ride Sunday afternoon to support maintaining the flag flying in front of the McPherson
Governmental Complex in Ocala.

The event was organized by David Stone of Ocala and was called the Florida Southern Pride Ride. Read more

Marion County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to put the Confederate flag back up at the county's government complex.

The flag was removed Thursday and temporarily replaced with a flag with the seal of Marion County.

County officials said the decision to remove the flag last week was in response to growing controversy surrounding the flag following the shooting deaths of nine black
men and women at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17. The suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, had posed with a Confederate flag in photos posted on a website that displayed a
racist manifesto attributed to him.

After the deadly shootings, Marion County's interim county administrator, Bill Kauffman, consulted with County Commission Chairman Stan McClain and decided to remove
the Confederate flag, which has flown outside the county's government complex for more than two decades.

Within minutes of Tuesday morning's vote, the Civil War-era flag was seen flying once again outside the government complex as one of the five national flags which have
flown over Florida since European explorers first landed on its shores more than 500 years ago. The other four are Spanish, French, British andRead more

Revival of white supremacy racism in Florida & America

County officials said the decision to remove the flag last week was in response to growing controversy surrounding the flag following the shooting deaths of nine black men and women at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina June 17 by Dylann Roof

A version of the Confederate flag, left, flew at the McPherson Governmental Complex, as shown in this April 27, 2000 file photo. It has been removed.

Marion County administration has removed the Confederate flag that had been flying in front of the McPherson Governmental Complex.

"It was my decision as county administrator," Interim County Administrator Bill Kauffman said.

Kauffman conferred with County Commission Chairman Stan McClain in making the decision, but the Board of County Commissioners was not involved in it, said Barbra
Hernandez, spokeswoman for Marion County.

"Obviously, Marion County is respectful of history," she explained about the decision. "We also understand the perceived connotations of displaying the flag at
governmental agencies."

The flag was removed last week. Hernandez said the county didn’t receive any calls from residents asking officials to take the flag down.

But Joyce Blake, chair of the Marion County Democratic Party, did send County Commissioner Earl Arnett an email last week asking how many Confederate flags were
displayed in front of government agencies in the county — and why they were displayed.

Blake on Monday morning said she still hasn’t received a response to her questions, though she has been provided confirmation that her email was received.

Hernandez said there are no other Confederate flags on display on county government property.Read more

Marion Co. public records: SIRE Public Web Application

To search the records of Marion County, go to theSIRE Public Web Application. The SIRE Public Access page will open. On the left side of the SIRE Public Access page you can serach by document text or by
document type. Enter your search term. Then check the boxes for "Permits", "Council Agendas", and "Adopted Minutes". When I searched the word "confederate", I found many documentsafter Marion County told me there were no
such documents.

FRUITLAND PARK --Two officers with the Fruitland Park Police Department are off the job after an investigation linked them to the Ku Klux Klan. An
investigation by the FBI named Deputy Chief David Borst and Cpl. George Hunnewell as members of the Klan.

Borst resigned, and Hunnewell was terminated Friday following a brief internal investigation, Fruitland Park Police Chief Terry Isaacs
said. Hunnewell had been demoted from corporal in 2013 for five write-ups for conduct, attitude, performance and timeless, Isaacs said.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented an investigative summary from an FBI source to Isaacs on Wednesday, stating the officers were associated with a "subversive
organization."

The investigation found no criminal wrongdoings.

"We are here, we are in place, and I want the public to know this type of conduct will not even be remotely tolerated," Isaacs
said.

Isaacs said he plans to interview every police officer within the department and ask them about potential ties to subversive groups, which
are against department policy.

Every case that Borst and Hunnewell worked will now be turned over for review by the State Attorney's Office, Isaacs said. more

White supremacy or white supremacism is a form of racism centered upon the belief, and promotion of
the belief, that white people are superior in certain characteristics, traits, and attributes to people of other racial backgrounds and that therefore whites should politically, economically and socially rule non-whites. The term
is also typically used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical and/or industrial domination by
white people (as evidenced by historical and contemporary sociopolitical structures like the Atlantic Slave Trade,
colonization of the Global South, Jim Crow laws in the United States, and miscegenation laws in
settler colonies and former settler colonies like the United States, South Africa, Australia, and Madagascar, for example).[1] Different forms of white supremacism put forth different conceptions of
who is considered white, and different white supremacists identify various racial and cultural groups as their primary enemy.[2] In academic usage, the term

Click image KKK in Florida

"white supremacy" can also refer to a system where whites enjoy a structural advantage (privilege) over other ethnic groups, both at a collective and an individual level (ceteris paribus, i.
e., when individuals are compared that do not relevantly differ except in ethnicity).Read more

........History of Lynching in Marion County, Florida..........

Lethal Punishment:The End of Lynching in Marion County, Floridaby Margaret Vandiver. Chapter Five.“The First Time
a Charge Like This Has Ever Been Tried in the Courts”pp. 70-88. Excerpts below from page 70 and page 72 respectively:

"Between 1885 and 1930, nineteen black men were lynched in Marion County, nine of them for sexual offenses. Marion County lynchings were public affairs, often carried
out before hundreds of witnesses, but none of the perpetrators was prosecuted."

"Marion County mobs sometimes left a placard or a sign attached to the body of the victim; when Robert Larkin was lynched in 1893, the mob left a placard reading,
"Done by 300 of the best citizens of this county."

John Richard’s offense was allegedly sending an insulting note to a white woman. Near the end of the Civil War, several black Union soldiers in Marion County
were burned to death for supposedly trying to recruit other blacks into the Union army.

Page 72, last paragraph, "White supremacy was deeply established in Marion County. In 1924, the Ocala Banner gave front-page space to an announcement that the Ku Klux Klan would be organizing a chapter in Marion County. Interested parties were instructed to send their name, church and lodge affiliations, and their place of birth, "only 100 per cent Americans wanted." The initiation
fee was ten dollars and robes cost another five dollars."[fn 14, Ocala Banner, May 30, 1924, 1.]

Link to lynching, Wikipedia

Pages 72-73 "The tradition of lynching was also deeply rooted in the county. The author of a memoir of the community of Citra recalled the route taken by the local
school bus in the 1920s: "it went through Cabbage Hammock, by Mr. Wartman's fence, and then by 'The Hanging Tree,' where it was not unusual to see pieces of frayed rope swaying from a stout limb, in
the early morning light." [fn15]. Lynching seems to have had broad support among whites in Marion
County."

Page 73, second paragraph, "Until the middle of the 1920s, the local press took a uniformly approving tone when reporting lynchings. When Elijah Jones was lynched for
allegedly raping a seventy-year-old white woman and attempting to assault an eleven-year-old white girl, the Ocala
Banner reported that three thousand people either participated in hanging Jones or viewed his body after the lynching." Page 73 continued...

"The Ocala Evening Star wrote a long article on the lynching, defending it in strident
terms. According to the paper, Jones was a "bad nigger," a "filthy ruffian," a "rape fiend," and a "degenerate young devil." Those who lynched him were not a mob but "representative citizens, and they consider it their duty to rid their county of
rapists and rattlesnakes as soon as possible." The mob members "understood all about" a remark Jones was reported to have made, "that he wanted white because he was tired of black. That is the
inspiration of all the rape fiends, and the only thing to meet it with is hot lead and hemp." The paper scornfully dismissed an inquiry from the Associated Press concerning race troubles in Marion
County, insisting that all was quiet and that everyone was going about their business as usual." [fn16, Ocala Banner, February 18, 1921,5; Ocala Evening Star, February
14,1921,1.]

Link to lynching, PBS

Page 71, "The Ku Klux Klan was active in Marion County, and in one case lynched the suspected murderers of a white man, hanging the skeleton of one of their victims from a tree near Ocala." [fn6]

Pages 71-72, "A striking aspect of lynching in Marion County is the frequency with which mobs took their victims from the custody of law enforcement, apparently meeting little or no resistance. Of the fifteen cases in which I have been able to determine the
circumstances of the suspect's capture by the mob, all but two involved suspects already in the custody of law enforcement officers."

Lynching of Reuben Stacy, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 1935

"Reuben Stacy, a 37-year-old black man, hangs from a tree on Old Davie Road in Fort Lauderdale, blood trickling down his body and dripping
off his toes. Behind him, a white girl, about 7 years old, looks on, a strange smile on her face as she takes in the sight of the "strange fruit" her elders had just created that hot day in July
1935."

Lynching, the practice of murdering people by extrajudicial mob action, occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 18th century
through the 1960s. Lynchings took place most frequently against African-American men in the southern U.S. after the American Civil War
and the emancipation of all slaves, and particularly from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in 1892. Lynchings were also very common in the Old West, where victims were primarily men of Mexican and Chinese minorities, although whites were also lynched.[1]Read more

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terrordocuments EJI’s multi-year investigation
into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 3959 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 700 more lynchings of black people in these states
than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date.Read more

EJI Report Summary: Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial
Terror.New York Times: History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names. Supplement- Lynchings of African Americans by County. (18 lynchings in Marion County, Florida)

Cretul was subsequently elected Speaker Pro Tempore of the State House on November 18,
2008. On January 30, 2009, Speaker Ray Sansom announced he was "recusing" himself from his duties as Speaker due to a scandal
over accepting an unadvertised job at Northwest Florida State College. Under the rule allowing him to
recuse himself, Sansom named Cretul acting Speaker until Sansom could return. Sansom and Cretul are roommates in Tallahassee
while the state House is in session.Read more

Speaker of the House Cretul committed to help get the orange radio tower moved so the Confederate Soldier Statue would not face it, according to Marion County
Historical Commission records, Meeting minutes for February 1, 2010, see below.

Marion Co. Historical Comm. re Civil War time capsuleThe Marion County Historical Commission requests time on the June 7, 2011 Agenda for the Board of County Commissioners for it to present the BOCC with the time capsule which was compiled in commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States and in honor of the rededication of the Confederate Soldier Memorial Statue. To Dr. Lee Niblock County AdministratorMarion Co. Historical Comm. re Civil War[...]Adobe Acrobat document [115.2 KB]

Neo-Confederateis a term used by some to describe the views of various groups and
individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions in the American Civil War in a positive light. See also:Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

The information in these brochures was researched and compiled by the Marion County Historical Commission. They provide interesting glimpses into the history of our
county along with information on where to go to learn more.

In Florida, Confederate authorities used slaves as teamsters to transport supplies and as laborers in salt works and fisheries...Many
Florida slaves working in these coastal industries used opportunities presented by the presence of Union blockading vessels and frequent coastal raids by Federal troops to escape bondage. The Union
employed many of these escaped slaves on ships or received them into service as soldiers and sailors in the U.S. military.

The large number of Union missing [in the Battle of Olustee] included dozens of wounded or captured black soldiers, whom the Confederates,
angry at seeing former slaves fighting as Union soldiers, killed out of hand.

An estimated 16,000 Floridians fought in the war. Most were in the Confederacy, but approximately 2,000 joined the Union army. Some
Floridians didn't want to fight for either side, so they hid out in the woods and swamps to avoid being drafted.

By 1863, the Confederate Army was in trouble. The bigger Union Army was decreasing the Confederate's numbers. President Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the southern states. This angered the Confederacy and the war continued. Many freed slaves joined the Union Army and fought to defeat the south
and free their brothers and sisters who were still in bondage.

Ku Klux Klan membersBruce Thomas, Christy Albino,
Chris Cosgrove and Jeff Coleman stand beside State Road 415 in Volusia County where the Klu Klux Klan is trying to adopt a portion of the highway. "I'm not much in favor of it. I keep my own ditch clean. I don't need the
Klan, or anybody else, to do it for me." Lee Davis-Osteen resident. Ron Lindsey, Sun Sentinel.Read more

(CNN) -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell apologized Wednesday for leaving out any reference to slavery in his recent proclamation designating April as
Confederate History Month, calling it a "major omission."

"The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed," McDonnell said
in a written statement.

"The abomination of slavery divided our nation, deprived people of their God-given inalienable rights, and led to the Civil War," the statement said. "Slavery was an
evil, vicious and inhumane practice which degraded human beings to property, and it has left a stain on the soul of this state and nation."

McDonnell also announced Wednesday that he would add language about slavery to the proclamation.

"(I)t is important for all Virginians to understand that the institution of slavery led to this (Civil) war and was an evil and inhumane practice that deprived people
of their God-given inalienable rights," the new language says, "and all Virginians are thankful for its permanent eradication from our borders."Read more

The South Reveres HerWashington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Andrew
Jackson, And Others, Who Laid The Foundations Of Our Grand Republic. She Honors Her Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Stuart, Johnson,Forest, And Every Brave Son Who Fought To Preserve Our Liberties, Guaranteed By The Fathers, Under The Constitution.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth...a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal... Now
we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation... can... endure...we here highly resolve...that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -Abraham Lincoln

The Confederate monument that stood guard in front of the Marion County Courthouse for nearly a century, only to be stuck in a corner two years ago as the facility was
expanded, is likely moving. The question remains: more

Mo Asumang, daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother, talks to BBC News about
her experiences making her new documentary, The Aryans, in which she confronts racists, both in Germany and among the Ku Klux Klan
in America. Link to Facebook

The 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon’s first landing on Florida’s east coast. Viva Florida 500 is the name
given to the year-long, statewide celebration to bring awareness to Florida’s rich and diverse history.

In the anticipation of the commemoration and to encourage local activities, the Department of the State’s Division of Library Services provided a Viva Florida 500 time
capsule, purchased with Library Services and Technology Act grant funds, to each of Florida’s 67 counties. In Marion County, the Marion County Public Library System was appointed to coordinate the
time capsule commemorative project efforts.

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to copy, print, publish, or otherwise use the flag or state emblem of Florida, or the flag or emblem of the
Confederate States, or any flag or emblem used by the Confederate States or the military or naval forces of the Confederate States at any time within the years 1860 to 1865, both inclusive, for the
purpose of advertising, selling, or promoting the sale of any article of merchandise whatever within this state.

(2) It shall also be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to mutilate, deface, defile, or contemptuously abuse the flag or emblem of Florida or the flag or
emblem of the Confederate States by any act whatever.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the use of any flag, standard, color, shield, ensign, or other insignia of Florida or of the Confederate States
for decorative or patriotic purposes.

No person shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon the flags of the Confederacy, or replicas thereof, for
crass or commercial purposes; provided however nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent or prohibit the use of such flags for decorative or patriotic purposes.

"West Port High School" and "Home of the Wolf Pack" lynching link

Link email w/Principal Ellspermann: Concern
with West Port High School and Home of the Wolf Pack, an educational environment that fosters group predatory behavior, which historically has been a problem in Marion County
Florida and lynching.

Every nation has a creation myth, or origin myth, which is the story people are taught of how the nation came into being. Ours says the United States began with
Columbus's so-called "discovery" of America, continued with settlement by brave Pilgrims, won its independence from England with the American Revolution, and then expanded westward until it became
the enormous, rich country you see today.

That is the origin myth. It omits three key facts about the birth and growth of the United States as a nation. Those facts demonstrate that White Supremacy is
fundamental to the existence of this country.Read

On the dayBennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to
the curb...because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax
bill.

60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Talks To Carl HiaasenIn a little less than a
century, the state of Florida has been transformed from a largely uninhabited swamp to the fourth-largest state in the union. And no one has written about that transformation more successfully than
Carl Hiaasen.

Carl Hiaasen on Florida:

"The Sunshine State is a paradise of scandals teeming with drifters, deadbeats, and misfits drawn here by some dark primordial
calling like demented trout. And you'd be surprised how many of them decide to run for public office."

In 1902, 140,000 miners went on strike, wanting higher pay, shorter work hours, and better housing.....Roosevelt...use[d] the military to run the mines in the "public
interest". The mining companies...accepted the demands of the UMW...more﻿﻿

Presidential Library and Museum

Pro labor: Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much higher consideration.Abraham
Lincoln pro labor quote﻿

Todayeconomic slaveryhas many people indebt chains. Economic or debt slavery ismore efficientfor its masters than the slavery of the Old South. Debt slaves must
feed, house and clothe themselves. Thedebt slave masters, thebanks,credit card companies, and even student loan providers, all rely upon the courts and justice system for enforcement of debt. When economic slaves can’t pay back their debt, they are told to get a second job. Or a third job.

Meanwhile, when thewell-connected mastersof economic slaves get in a financial bind, and
bring our economy to the brink of collapse, they call on politicians in Washington, DC for bailouts.Bankers don’t get second
or third jobs, they get million-dollar bonuses.

Theeconomic slave mastershave access to the best lawyers, sympathetic judges, and sheriff’s
deputies ready to haul the debt slave to court, or throw him and his family out of their
home and into the street. Does anyone see a problem with thisscenario? Where is the John Brown for today’sdebt slaves?﻿

The State Department's top spokesman resigned Sunday, three days after criticizing the Pentagon for its treatment of [Manning]...P.J. Crowley, the assistant secretary of State for public affairs, told a group at [MIT]...that the Pentagon's treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning was "ridiculous and stupid and
counterproductive." His comments were made public by a blogger who attended the session.More here, and Politico, andThe Washington
Post

FORTY years ago today, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment not only for freedom of the press but also for the role of
whistle-blowers — like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the papers to expose the mishandling of the war in Vietnam — in defending our democracy.Read more﻿﻿

Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in
Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable.Read
more﻿

"I really don't like the term 'PTSD,’” Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Shay told PBS' "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" in 2010. "He says the diagnostic
definition of "post-traumatic stress disorder" is a fine description of certain instinctual survival skills that persist into everyday life after a person has been in mortal danger — but the
definition doesn't address the entirety of a person's injury after the trauma of war. "I view the persistence into civilian life after battle," he says, "... as the simple or primary
injury." Dr. Shay on YouTube

Dr. Shay has his own name for the thing the clinical definition of PTSD leaves out. He calls it "moral injury" — and the term is catching on with both the VA and the
Department of Defense.

Moral injury, Dr. Shay says, can happen when "there is a betrayal of what's right by someone who holds legitimate authority in a high-stakes situation."read more

The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer
school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women.

Stars and Stripes exists to provide independent news and information to the U.S. military community, comprised
of active-duty, DoD civilians, contractors, and their families. Unique among the many Department of Defense authorized news outlets, only Stars and Stripes is guaranteed First Amendment privileges
that are subject to Congressional oversight.﻿ Go to the website

Our motto: "FIGHTING FOR THE TRUTH. . .EXPOSING THE CORRUPT" is our battle cry! We go after, not only pompous brasshats and as COL. David Hackworth so ably put it -
the "perfumed princes" like Gen. Wesley Clark - but Gestapo-like MP's, CID, NIS, OIS and other alphabet agency "bully boys" who ignore the Constitution of the United States and the right to Due
Process.﻿

Major Heather Penney recounts the drama in the skies after District of Columbia Air National Guard pilots scrambled to intercept incoming hostile planes. She
describes why F-16’s initially took off from Andrews Air Force Base unarmed – and what she was prepared to do to bring down a plane piloted by terrorists. And she recounts how later that day she
helped escort President Bush and Air Force One back to Andrews Air Force Base.﻿ C-Span
Interview

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Seven Year Anniversary - YouSue.org to NoSue.org

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empowered ordinary people to produce and share video.

Through this website I have met folks from all over the country. Some of their stories are profiled here. Many have reached the conclusion that America’s justice system is broken.

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